In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, explains the reasons for his commitment to European federalism.

In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, a former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, identifies the reasons for the proliferation of pro-European movements after the Second World War.

In February 1947, the Dutch militant federalist, Henri Brugmans, publishes an article in the French journal Fédération in which he emphasises the importance of European reconstruction based on the federal model.

During a meeting in Montreux on 23 August 1947, the World Movement for World Federal Government issues a Declaration on the role of world federalism as a political ideal.

These archive images illustrate the action taken by pro-European activists after the Second World War and their success.

In this interview, Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and former Secretary-General of the French Union of Federalists, discusses the development and concentration of the federalist movement in France after the Second World War.

The National Congress of the French Union of Federalists (UFF), held in Paris on 12 and 13 June 1948, adopts a motion calling for the urgent establishment of a European Parliamentary Assembly.

In December 1948, Henri Frenay, President of the Central Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), and Marcel Hytte, militant Socialist and independent federalist, respond to the questionnaire on the concept of Europe which was published by the Belgian monthly magazine Les Cahiers Socialistes.

In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, recalls the origins of the pro-European tendency in France after the Second World War.

In this interview, Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Secretary-General of the French Union of Federalists and former member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), discusses the objectives and activities of the French Union of Federalists, in particular when debates were being held regarding the European Defence Community (EDC).

In this interview, French federalist activist Jean-Pierre Gouzy relays his memories of the Congress of Europe held in The Hague in May 1948 and outlines the events occurring at that time that left a lasting impression on him.

On 7 May 1948, at the opening session of the Congress of Europe in The Hague, Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister and Honorary President of the Congress, delivers an address from the platform in the Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall) at the Binnenhof, home to the Netherlands' Parliament, in which he warns of the threat which the Soviet Union represents for the future of European unification.

Poster published for the Congress of Europe held in The Hague from 7 to 10 May 1948. The red ‘E' chosen as the symbol for a united Europe will be replaced definitively by a green ‘E' some months later when the European Movement is established in Brussels.

From 7 to 10 May 1948, some 800 activists representing the various European movements meet at the Hague Congress under the honorary chairmanship of Winston Churchill.

During the final session of the Congress of Europe held in The Hague in May 1948, some 800 participants adopt the basic text, Message to Europeans, drawn up by the Swiss federalist, Denis de Rougemont.